Clinton Foundation – Full-time Position, Scheduling Correspondence Assistant

Deadline: July 17, 2010

About the Clinton Foundation:

The William J. Clinton Foundation focuses on worldwide issues that demand urgent action, solutions, and measurable results — global climate change, HIV/AIDS in the developing world, childhood obesity and economic opportunity in the United States, and economic development in Africa and Latin America.

Overview:

The primary purpose of the Scheduling Correspondence Assistant is to ensure that all of President Clinton’s incoming invitations and meeting requests are properly managed. This person ensures that we respond to all inquiries by either turning down President Clinton’s attendance or facilitating the acceptance of certain events and meetings. The Scheduling Correspondence Assistant is also responsible for ensuring that all invitations are properly databased and filed for future reference.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the scheduling phone line, email and mailbox.
• Prepare lists of relevant invitations for the review of senior staff at the Clinton Foundation and work with senior staff on invitations that pertain to their departments and initiatives.
• Respond to all invitations in writing or over the phone.
• Coordinate President Clinton’s letters and videos with other departments throughout the Clinton Foundation.
• Oversee the Scheduling Department interns.
• Maintain the scheduling databases and files.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree preferred
• Some administrative work experience preferred
• General understanding of the Foundation’s work and of President Clinton’s legacy.
• High level of judgment, discretion and tact when interacting with people who have invited President Clinton to various events.
• Ability to effectively direct 2 interns in order to maximize their efficiency and provide them with a rewarding internship.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to easily interact with others, especially members of senior staff.

Work Conditions:

• Significant computer work, which may require repetitive motion, prolonged periods of sitting, and sustained visual and mental applications.
• Occasional lifting, bending, pulling, collating, and filing, some of which could be heavy (>15 lbs) or require the use of carts.

This position is overtime eligible.

William J. Clinton Foundation & Office of President Clinton are Equal Opportunity Employers.

To apply, please click here.

Fintrac – Full-time Position, Agriculture Program Specialist

Deadline: August 1, 2010.

Job Description

Fintrac is seeking dynamic, results-driven individuals to support multi-year agricultural development programs that directly impact poverty and food security around the world. Duties include project administration, recruitment and fielding of technical consultants, market research, grants and subcontracts administration, impact monitoring, financial oversight, reporting and other special projects as needed. The Agriculture Program Specialist position is based in Washington, DC and includes international travel opportunities.

About Fintrac

Fintrac is a leading US-based agriculture consulting firm with projects in Latin America, Africa and Asia. We provide agricultural solutions to end hunger and poverty. Fintrac professionals innovate and introduce market-led, productivity-enhancing, eco-friendly and sustainable technologies, practices and crops for income generation and food security.  Fintrac provides top notch benefits, competitive pay and challenging, meaningful work.

Required Skills

The successful candidate will possess superior Excel, writing, editing, analytical and organizational skills. USAID project management experience is a plus, as is Spanish or French fluency and overseas field experience. A Bachelor’s degree is required.

Must be eligible to work in the United States and be able to travel abroad.

Fintrac Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To Apply

Online applications are available at http://www.cytiva.com/mango1/ext/detail.asp?jobid=mango1133.

If you have any questions, please email Byron Cortez at bcortez@fintrac.com.

Women Thrive Worldwide – Summer 2010 Global Partnerships Internship

Deadline: Rolling. Apply early for priority consideration.

Women Thrive Worldwide, created in 1998, advocates with the U.S. government for international economic and human right policies that support women worldwide in ending poverty in their lives, communities and nations. The organization pushes to generate dynamic policy approaches that can change the way U.S. international assistance and trade programs operate in order to be most beneficial in increasing economic opportunities for poor women worldwide.

The Department of Global Partnerships is responsible for: creating and maintaining relationships with southern women’s organizations; monitoring and tracking U.S. policies in the field; coordinating visits from southern leaders to speak at policy-relevant venues among many other tasks.

Time Commitment: FT or PT schedule available (at least 20 hours/wk required); (May 2010 – August 2010)

Specific duties include:

• Researching southern women’s organizations
• Assisting with the dissemination of the Global Survey research findings
• Contributing to the creation of an outreach strategy for 2010
• Working closely with the director and the African manager on Thrive’s Africa’s partnerships in Africa and Latin America
• Assisting with travel arrangements to and from the countries
• When required, coordinating communication with our French or Spanish speaking partners
• Occasionally, helping with administrative tasks, such as updating Thrive’s database, filing, note-taking

Required skills for this internship:

• French and/or Spanish (fluent or native speaker)
• Familiarity with non-governmental organizations in southern countries, especially in West African and Central American countries
• Undergrad (Senior year) or Graduate-level

All of the Women’s Edge Coalition Internships require:

• Superior oral and written communication skills
• Excellent research skills
• Strong interest in international development economics, or political organizing for international women’s issues
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated work style with attention to detail
• Interest and/or course work in international economics, development or women’s issues
• Excellent computer skills, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Women Thrive Worldwide has had much success with many interns. You will learn a lot and get a great reference. We invest a lot in our interns and you will have a high degree of responsibility and very high level of involvement in the organization.

TO APPLY: Please send cover letter, resume and contact information for 3 references to Dr. Catalina Rojas, Director of Global Partnerships

Send applications to <a href=”mailto:jcook@womenthrive.org”>jcook@womenthrive.org</a>

No phone calls/fax please. Be sure to mention “Global Partnerships Internship” on email subject.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

This is an unpaid internship.

Northwestern GESI Summer Programs – Bolivia, Nicaragua, India, Uganda

Deadline: March 3, 2010 (early) and April 1, 2010.

*Spaces are filled on a rolling basis; the sooner you apply, the greater your chance of admittance

Are you passionate about global change, committed to learning by doing, and ready to engage in hands-on international development?

The Global Engagement Summer Institute at Northwestern University will equip you to:

• Work directly with grassroots NGOs and local communities in Uganda, India, Nicaragua, or Bolivia
• Earn two Northwestern course credits through a weeklong training institute in Chicago
• Leverage the strengths — rather than list the weaknesses — of the communities in which you live and work abroad
• Live with a host family and immerse yourself in another culture for eight weeks
• Work in teams to design and implement an original development project in environmental development, microfinance, youth and education, gender and development, global health, social enterprise, and more

Ready to take the next step? Visit www.mycge.org to learn more, or sign up here for the GESI mailing list.